ROBERTA VERA RICCI CURRICULUM VITAE AC STUDIORUM

SEPTEMBER 2017 Department of Italian Studies Bryn Mawr College Thomas Hall 134 101 N. Merion Avenue Tel. (610) 526-5048 Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 rricci@brynmawr.edu

EDUCATION 1998 Ph.D. in Italian Literature, The Johns Hopkins University.

Dissertation’s title: “Il commento d’autore. Boccaccio, Tasso, Foscolo, Saba,” pp. 433.

1990 B.A/M.A. University of Pisa, laurea 110/110 summa cum laude and “Diritto alla pubblicazione.” Dottore in Lettere, Philology. Dissertation’s title: “Per una storia di Hermaphrodito di Alberto Savinio,” pp. 305.

EMPLOYMENT

1/2008-present Chair, Department of Italian and Italian Studies, Bryn Mawr College.

2008-present Co-Director, Romance Languages (Italian), Bryn Mawr College.

2012-2013 & Interim Director, Film Studies, Bryn Mawr College. 2016-2017

2009-present Associate Professor, Tenured, Department of Italian, Bryn Mawr College.

2004-2009 Director, Summer Study in Pisa Program, Bryn Mawr College.

2004-2008 Assistant Professor, Department of Italian, Bryn Mawr College.

2001-2004 Assistant Professor, Tenure-track, Modern Languages Department, Seton Hall University. Reappointed.

Coordinator, Italian Language Program, Seton Hall University.

Director, Study Abroad in Pisa, Seton Hall University.

2000-2001 Visiting Assistant Professor, Modern and Foreign Languages Department, Sarah Lawrence College.

1998-2000 Visiting Assistant Professor, Romance Studies, Duke University.

1991-1993 Lecturer, Italian Department, Georgetown University.

SCHOLARLY WORK Research Interests: Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Classical Epics and Elegiac Poetry, Jewish-

Italian Literature, Comparative Literature, Philology, Paleography, History of Manuscripts, Psychoanalysis.

Book: • Scrittura, riscrittura, autoesegesi: voci autoriali intorno all’epica volgare. Boccaccio e Tasso. Pisa: ETS, 2010, pp. 260. Tavole 30.

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o Reviewed in: ! Symposium, vol. 69 (2015): 50-52. ! Studi italiani, anno XXVI, vol. 2 (2014): 161-163. ! Rassegna della letteratura italiana, vol. 118 (2014): 542-543. ! Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 64, n. 4 (2011): 1256-1258. ! NeMLA Italian Studies -NIS, vol. 34 (2011): 153-155.

o Cited. Speaking Truth to Power, Annali d’italianistica, vol. 3, 2016, p. 244.

o Nominated for the Haskins Medal, Fall 2015. The Medieval Academy of America.

o Subject of the Panel “Meet the Authors: Round Table with the Authors”, October-November 2012, AATI Conference, Philadelphia.

o Included in the North American Boccaccio Bibliography, 2010.

Edited Volumes: • The Renaissance Dialogue. Contributor and Co-Editor with Simona Wright, including Introduction (pp. vii-xviii). Special Issue on Renaissance Studies of Northern East Modern Language Association Italian Studies (NEMLA), vol. XXXVIII (2016), pp. 245.

o Reviewed in: ! Annali d’italianistica, forthcoming, 2017. ! Symposium, forthcoming, 2017. ! Renaissance Quarterly, forthcoming, 2017. ! Rivista di letteratura storiografica, n. 1 (2017): 165-166.

• Approaches to Teaching the Works of Primo Levi. Co-Editor with Nicholas Patruno, including Materials Part I and Introduction Part II (pp. 3-19). Approaches to Teaching World Literature Series. New York: The Modern Language Association Press, 2014, pp. 176.

o Reviewed in: ! Annali d’italianistica, vol. 34 (2016): 680-683. ! Italica, forthcoming, 2017. ! Forum italicum, forthcoming, 2017.

Edited Volume • Classicism, Humanism, and Modernity: Poggio Bracciolini's Legacy in (Under Contract): Florence and Beyond. Proceedings of the Symposium, April 8-9, 2016, Bryn

Mawr College. Co-Editor with David Cast and Eric Pumroy and Contributor. Firenze University Press. Forthcoming summer 2018. Tavole 30.

Book Chapters • Introduction, The Renaissance Dialogue, in The Renaissance Dialogue, special (Published; Invited volume, NeMLA Italian Studies, vol. XXXVIII, 2016, pp. vii-xviii. by Editor in Chief)

• Introduction, Materials (Part I) and Approaches (Part II), Approaches to Teaching the Works of Primo Levi, New York: The Modern Language Association Press, 2014, pp. 3-19.

Book Chapters • “The Revolution of the Hand: Scripts and Manuscripts in Poggio Bracciolini’s

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(Forthcoming & Florence.” Tavole 9. In Tradition and the Individual Text in Italian Studies. Under Review) Essays in Honor of Pier Massimo Forni. Ed. by Federica Brunori, Francesco

(Invited by Editor in Ciabattoni, Stefano Giannini. Modern Language Notes (forthcoming 2018). Chief)

• “Renaissance Travelogues and Immersive Learning: Humanists en Route to the East.” In Classicism, Humanism, and Modernity: Poggio Bracciolini's Legacy in Florence and Beyond (under contract).

• “The State of Philology and Digital Philology in Academia Today.” In Classicism, Humanism, and Modernity: Poggio Bracciolini's Legacy in Florence and Beyond (under contract).

• “Umanesimo letterario, riforma grafica: Poggio Bracciolini editore, filologo e copista.” In The Renaissance Dialogue, NeMLA Italian Studies, vol. XXXVIII (2016), 2-38. Tavole 9.

• “Sex? Love? No, Let Us Talk About Marriage: Back to Reality with Boccaccio’s Onesta Brigata (X, 10).” In Misogynism in Literature. Ed. by Britta Zangen. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2004, 15-38.

Articles in Peer • “The Beautiful Woman in the Arms of Hypnos: Maritalis Affectio as a Happy Reviewed Journals: Ending?” Decameron V, 1.” Rivista di Studi Italiani, XXIII, 1, June (2005)

(released March 2008): 1-24.

• “Il valore etico della narrazione frantumata: l’autoesegesi gaddiana in La cognizione del dolore.” Italienisch, November (2005): 30-46.

• “Prefazione e appendice d’autore negli scritti didimei di Ugo Foscolo: la traduzione del Sentimental Journey e le Lettere scritte dall’Inghilterra.” Filologia e critica, 3 (2003): 329-349. Cited in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, vol. 274 (2013): 151.

• “Morphologies and Functions of Self-Criticism in Modern Times: Has the Author Come Back?” Modern Language Notes, 118 (2003): 116-146.

• “L’assenza di punti di fuga e il destino di immobile Malora nelle Langhe di Fenoglio.” Italian Culture, 20 (2002): 149-166.

• “La risemantizzazione del viaggio dantesco nell’Orlando Furioso fra allusione e parodia.” Misure Critiche, 2 (2002): 35-55.

• “La polivalenza metaforica e la duttilità metaforica del lessema cuore.’Considerazioni lessicologiche sulla genesi dell’innamoramento nella lirica elegiaca e nei versi stilnovistici.” Orpheus, 1 (1997): 157-172.

• “Grecità e romanticismo nella ‘mitologia moderna’ di Alberto Savinio.” Quaderni d’Italianistica, 17 (1996): 33-59.

• “(Dis)Simulazione femminile nella ‘Gerusalemme Liberata.’ Misure critiche, 97-98 (1997): 19-35.

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Articles in Progress:

Book Reviews & Entries:

• “Mistificazione, memoria, scrittura in Italo Svevo.” Italian Culture, 13 (1997): 187-200.

• “Bibliography of Charles Singleton.” Filologia e critica, 2-3 (1995): 183-190.

• “Savinio-Giasone in partenza con gli argonauti.” Italian Culture, 12 (1994): 189-200.

• “Note su Hermaphrodito di Alberto Savinio.” Acqua marina (1994): 15-27.

• The First Study Abroad: Humanists en Route to Byzantium. Tavole. • From Lina to Elena and Back: Violence and Disappearance in Ferrante’s

Neapolitan Novels • Old Carducci Still Matters?

• Cavallo, Jo Ann and Lottieri, Carlo (eds). Annali d’italianistica. Speaking Truth to Power from Medieval to Modern Italy. Italica, 2017. Forthcoming in fall 2017. (Invited)

• Cavallo, Jo Ann (ed). Approaches to Teaching Ariosto and the Italian Romance Epic Tradition. Teaching World Literature Series. New York: Modern Languages Association Press. (Invited)

• Cavallo, Jo Ann. The World beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2013. Critica letteraria, 163 (2015): 429-433. (Invited)

• Marinella, Lucrezia. Exhortation to Women and to Others if They Please. Benedetti, Laura (ed. and trans). The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012. Symposium, vol. 67, n. 4 (2013): 235-237. (Invited)

• Sinesio di Cirene, Perì enypnìon [Il libro dei Sogni]. Milano: Archinto, 2010. Libellula, n. 5 (December 2013): 134-137.

• Ugo Foscolo, LLC in the multi-volume series Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (NCLC), vol. 27 (2013): 1-151. Layman Poupard Publishing. Annotated Bibliography/Criticism 4-149; Annotated Bibliography/ Further Reading 150-151. (Invited)

• Finucci, Valeria (ed). Floridoro. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2005. Filologia Critica, Jan-April (2009): 148-150. (Invited)

• Finotti, Fabio. Retorica della diffrazione: Bembo, Aretino, Giulio Romano e Tasso: letteratura e scena cortigiana. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2004. Renaissance Quarterly, LVIII (2005): 1296-1298. (Invited)

• Ruvoldt, Maria. The Italian Renaissance Imagery of Inspiration. Metaphors of

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Sex, Sleep and Dreams. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Annali d’Italianistica, vol. 23 (2005): 280-282.

• Finucci, Valeria (ed). Urania. Roma: Bulzoni, 2002. Modern Language Notes, 119 (2004): 193-197. (Invited)

• Finucci, Valeria (ed). Renaissance Transactions. Ariosto and Tasso. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. Modern Language Notes, 115 (2000): 145-150. (Invited)

• Tinterri, Alessandro. Alberto Savinio e lo spettacolo. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1993. Ariel (1996): 260-264.

INVITED LECTURES Spring 2018

Fall 2017

Spring 2017

Spring 2016

March 2015

May 2014

April 2014

November 2013

August 2010

February 2007

• “Authority and Authorship in Medieval and Early Modern Periods”. University of Pennsylvania.

• “Florence and Its Graphic System in Early Humanism”. Vassar College.

• “Old Scripts Still Matter: Bracciolini’s Hand”. Works in Progress Program. Organized by the Provost Office, Bryn Mawr College.

• “Poggio Bracciolini’s Manuscripts”. HART 311, Topics in Medieval Art, Bryn Mawr College.

• “Philology in Italy Today”. Opening Remarks. Symposium Classicism, Humanism, and Modernity: Poggio Bracciolini’s Legacy in Florence and Beyond, Bryn Mawr College.

• “The Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana and Humanistic Scripts.” Rutgers University.

• “La Siciliana Ribelle.” America-Italy Society, Philadelphia.

• “Primo Levi Now and Then.” Rutgers University (declined).

• “Remember the Author: (Self) Reflexivity and (Self) Commentary in two Early-Modern Epic Poems.” Book Presentation, Italian Consulate, Philadelphia. The Year of the Italian Culture in the United States.

• “Florence and Its Countryside: Boccaccio’s Brigata in the Decameron.” Bryn Mawr College Alumnae, Dalmatian Coast Alumnae Trip.

• “Arcangela Tarabotti and the Polemic on Luxury in Seventh-Century Venice.” Bryn Mawr College Alumnae, Dalmatian Coast Alumnae Trip.

• “Fabulosum velamentum in un’autoesegesi ai margini: Teseida di nozze d’Emilia.” University of Pisa.

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June 2004 • “Dioneo’s Sexed Thoughts to the Ladies in Love (and in Otio).” Bryn Mawr College, Study Abroad, Florence.

October 2002 • “Defining Literature: Authors Reading Themselves.” La Motta Italian Studies Lectures, Seton Hall University.

July 2002 • “Censorship and Self-Censorship: Men of Letters.” Renaissance Go-Between: Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe Conference, University of Munich, Germany.

June 2002 • “Autori lettori e critici dei propri testi.” University of Pisa, Department of Italian.

February 2001 • “The Role of Prefaces in Modern Italian Novels.” Rutgers University.

January 2001 • “Twenty Years Later: Savinio’s Appendix in Hermaphrodito.” Modern Languages Series, Sarah Lawrence College.

April 2000 • “Da Goethe a Sterne: Foscolo didimeo.” Franklin and Marshall College.

January 2000 • “Iuxta Principia Propria: Self-Commentaries in Modern Italian Writers.” The Catholic University of America, DC.

November 1996 • “Dialettica fra realtà e parola nella Giornata VI del Decameron di Boccaccio.” Lectures Series Italian Studies,Villa Spelman, Florence.

November 1994 • “Grecità (e romanticismo) nella mitologia moderna di Alberto Savinio.” Lectures Series Italian Studies,Villa Spelman, Florence.

CONFERENCE PAPERS February 2016 • “From New to Old: Poggio Bracciolini’s Calligraphic Revolution.” CAA

Conference, Washington, DC

March 2014 • “Scripts and Manuscripts in Florentine Humanism and Beyond.” RSA Conference, NY.

November 2012 • “Umanesimo: studi e testi, influssi e sviluppi.” AATI Conference, Philadelphia.

March 2012 • “Umanesimo moderno oltre il confine: trascrizione manoscritta, umanistica corsiva et Poggio Bracciolini.” RSA Conference, Washington DC.

April 2011 • “Modern Philology, Classical Tradition, and Manuscript Transmission: Poggio Bracciolini's Calligraphy and Aldo Manuzio's Humanist Script.” NEMLA Conference, Rutgers University.

April 2010 • “Lectura, imitatio et curiositas: commentare in età umanistica.” NEMLA Conference, Montreal.

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April 2009 • “Dalla glosula scolastica alla filologia umanistica: emendatio et contaminatio.” AAIS Conference, New York.

February 2009 • “Vis imaginativa, mimesi storica, teoria aristotelica: le leggi del racconto epico cinquecentesco.” NEMLA Conference, Boston.

October 2007 • “Touching Your Own Texts: Epic Poems in Vernacular.” AATI Conference, Washington, D.C.

March 2006 • “Fabulosum Velamentum”: Teseida o le nozze d’Emilia.” NEMLA Conference, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

April 2005 • “The Beautiful Woman in the Arms of Hypnos: Maritalis Affectio as a Happy Ending? (Decameron V, 1).” AAIS Conference, University of Chapel Hill, NC.

April 2004 • “Sex? Love? No, Let Us Talk about Marriage. Boccaccio’s Onesta Brigata back to Reality.” AAIS Conference, Ottawa.

April 2003 • “Lettere, letteratura, letterarietà: il codice epistolare femminile nel Cinquecento.” AAIS Conference, Georgetown University.

November 2000 • “L’Editore chiede venia del recupero chiamando in causa l’Autore”: un’autoesegesi gaddiana.” AATI Conference, Boston.

April 2000 • “Boccaccio's Marginalia in the Teseida.” AAIS Conference, New York.

April 1998 • “Da Verga a Fenoglio: La Malora.”AAIS Conference, University of Chicago.

April 1994 • “Italo Svevo: mistificazione, memoria, scrittura.” AAIS Conference, University of Wisconsin.

April 1993 • “Savinio’s Hermaphrodito.” AAIS Conference, University of Austin, TX.

April 1992 • “La storia di Hermaphrodito.” AAIS Conference, University of North Carolina.

PANELS, LECTURES, AND SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED March 2017 • “Manuscript Studies”, NEMLA Conference, The Johns Hopkins University,

MD.

April 8/9 2016 • Classicism, Humanism, and Modernity: Poggio Bracciolini’s Legacy in Florence and Beyond. An International and interdisciplinary (Italian Lit., Latin Lit., Philology, Paleography, Comparative Lit., Intellectual History) two-day symposium in Memory of Phyllis Goodhart Gordan, Bryn Mawr College. Eight Speakers.

March 2012 • “Modern Philology, Manuscript Transmission, and Poggio Bracciolini.” RSA Conference, Washington DC.

April 2011 • “Fra parola e immagine: (ri)scritture umanistiche.” NEMLA Conference, Rutgers University.

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April 2010 • “Leggere e (ri) scrivere in epoca umanistica: esegesi, eloquentia e libertas dicendi.” NEMLA Conference, Montreal.

April 2009 • “Leggere e commentare: dibattito testuale ed interpretazione filologica in età medievale ed umanistica.” AAIS Conference, New York.

October 2007 • “Traduzione, tradizione, intertestualità.” AATI Conference, Washington, DC.

May 2005 • “The Holocaust (Un)Representability: Testimony in Italian Women Writers.” The Legacy of the Holocaust Conference, Krakow.

April 2005 • “Intertextuality and Interdiscursiveness: Boccaccio Writer and (Self) Commentator.” AAIS Conference, University of Chapel Hill.

• “Contro il canone? Scrittura femminile contemporanea.” AAIS Conference, University of Chapel Hill, NC.

• “Lost & Found: Rediscovering Women Poets of the Italian Renaissance.” Two-week exhibition on female writers in Renaissance Italy and installation on sixteenth century women poets through handkerchiefs imprinted with sonnets, Bryn Mawr College, Canaday Library. Two speakers.

• “Foscolo’s Letters from England: Longing and Humor.” AAIS Conference, University of Ottawa.

April 2004 • “Jewish Italian Identity.” AAIS Conference, University of Ottawa.

• La Motta Chair, Italian Studies Lectures Series, Seton Hall University.

February 2003 • International Film Festival, Sarah Lawrence College.

May 1999 • “P. M. Pasinetti: A Celebration of the Man and His Work.” Conference, U.C.L.A.

March 1998 • The Anti-literary Mind Conference, The Johns Hopkins University.

SESSIONS CHAIRED March 2017 • “Manuscript Studies”, NEMLA Conference, The Johns Hopkins, MD.

March 2014 • “Reading Publics III: Old and New Reading Practices.” RSA Conference, NY.

April 2011 • “Fra parola e immagine: (ri)scritture umanistiche.” NEMLA Conference, Rutgers University.

April 2010 • “Leggere e (ri) scrivere in epoca umanistica: esegesi, eloquentia e libertas dicendi.” NEMLA Conference, Montreal.

April 2009 • “Leggere e commentare: dibattito testuale ed interpretazione filologica in età medievale ed umanistica.” AAIS Conference, New York.

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October 2007 • “Traduzione, tradizione, intertestualità.” AATI Conference, Washington, DC.

May 2005 • “Women and the Arts.” Women and the Holocaust, Krakow.

• “Women from Greece and Italy.” Women and the Holocaust, Krakow.

April 2005 • “Intertextuality and Interdiscursiveness: Boccaccio Writer and (Self) Commentator.” AAIS Conference, University of Chapel Hill.

April 2004 • “Social Worth and Performative Utterance in Boccaccio’s Decameron.” AAIS Conference, University of Chapel Hill.

• “Jewish Italian Identity.” AAIS Conference, University of Ottawa.

April 2003 • “I testi minori dell’Ariosto.” AAIS Conference, University of Ottawa.

• “Letteratura e artificio: fra innovazione e deviazione.” AAIS Conference, Georgetown University.

April 1999 • “Bridging Female Voices in Early Modern Italy.” AAIS Conference, Georgetown University.

• “Scrittura e riflessione teorica nel ‘500.” AAIS Conference, Chicago.

GRANTS, AWARDS, AND HONORS Spring 2014 • Goodhart Gordan Fellowship, Bryn Mawr College (Poggio Bracciolini’s

Humanism)

Spring 2013 Renaissance Society of America Summer Grant (Poggio Bracciolini’s Hand at Work)

Fall 2011 • Faculty Research Grant, Bryn Mawr College (Remember the Hand: Manuscript Tradition and Poggio Bracciolini).

Fall 2014 • Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione (Rome), International Grant (A Small Italian Multilingual Community at Bryn Mawr College: How to Integrate the curriculum).

Summer 2009 • Faculty Research Grant, Bryn Mawr College (Tasso’s Codice Gonzaga: Philological, Chronological, and Paleographical Issues).

• Center for International Studies, Bryn Mawr College (Tasso’s Codice Gonzaga: Philological, Chronological, and Paleographical Issues).

2007-2009 • Rosalyn R. Schwartz Lectureship, Bryn Mawr College.

Spring 2007 • NEH Summer Grant (Self-Exegesis at the Margins: Boccaccio’s Teseida).

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• Renaissance Society of America Summer Grant (Self-Exegesis at the Margins: Boccaccio’s Teseida)

• Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities Fellowship, Bogliasco (Scritture e riscritture).

Fall 2006 • Nominated by Bryn Mawr College for the NEH Summer Grant.

2005/06/07/08 • Mellon Trico Fellow International Faculty Group, Bryn Mawr College.

2004 • The Isabel H. Benham Faculty Research Grant, Bryn Mawr College.

2003 • Faculty Research Grant, Seton Hall University.

2002 • Centro Studi sul Classicismo Research Grant, S. Gimignano.

• Elected member of the Italian American Heritage Institute Board of Academic Advisors, Rutgers University.

1999 • Elected by the Governor of New Jersey as a member of the Commission on Italian and Americans of Italian Heritage Cultural and Educational Programs.

1997 • Research Grant, Centro Studi sul Classicismo, S. Gimignano.

1996 • Singleton Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University.

1995 • Singleton Research Grant, The Johns Hopkins University.

1993 • Full Tuition Grant, Ph.D Program, The Johns Hopkins University.

1990 • Summa Cum Laude, University of Pisa.

COURSES TAUGHT AT BMC

• ITAL 403 Diversity and Identity in 20th century Italian Literature. Independent Study (K. Hallam). • GNST B425 Praxis III. From Script to Film. Film Studies and Praxis. Independent Study (T.

Sprague) • ITAL 408 Un Americano in Italia e un italiano in America. Independent Study (H. Flack). • ITAL 399 Senior Seminar (see honors theses supervised). • ITAL 398 Senior Seminar (see honors theses supervised). • ITAL 380 Modernity, Neurosis, and Psychoanalysis: Crossing National Boundaries in 20th century

Italy and Europe. New course. • ITAL 320 Nationalism and Freedom: The Italian Risorgimento in Foscolo, Manzoni, Leopardi. New

Course. • ITAL 307 Insiders and Outsiders: Otherness in Italian Literature. New Course.

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• ITAL 306 Grief, Sexuality, and Identity: Youth in Contemporary Italian Literature. Cross Listed with Gender & Sexuality Studies and Film Studies. New Course.

• ITAL 304 The Renaissance in Italy: Literature and Beyond. Cross Listed with Gender and Sexuality Studies.

• ITAL 301 Dante’s Hell and Our Earthly Lives. • ITAL 299 Youth in 20th Century Italian Literature and Cinema. New Course. • ITAL 255 Sicilian Men of Respect: The Mafia in Italian Cinema and Literature (The Andrew W.

Mellon TLI). Cross Listed with Film Studies. New Course. • ITAL 235 The Italian Women's Movement: Italian Women's Movement: Heroines In and Out of the

Canon. Cross Listed with Gender and Sexuality Studies and Film Studies. New Course. • ITAL 225 Death and Identity: Italian Cinema and Literary Adaptation-Book to Film and Back. Cross

Listed with Film Studies. • ITAL 202 The Italian Short Story (Bryn Mawr Summer Study in Pisa Program). • ITAL 102 Intermediate Italian II. • ITAL 101 Intermediate Italian I. • ITAL 002 Elementary Italian II. • ITAL 001 Elementary Italian I. • He Said, She Said: The Battle of the Sexes in Italian Literature. Cross Listed with Gender and

Sexuality Studies (E Sem). • Italian Women Writers (E Sem).

Senior Honors Theses Supervised: 1. “Tourism in Rome”, in progress, AY 17-18 (R. Fisher) 2. “Italophone Literature in three African-Italian Women Writers”, 2017, pp. 40 (A.Wiltshire). 3. “Uno studio filologico della monaca di Monza”, 2014, pp. 53 (C. Columbus). 4. “No, nun so’ stata io”: i romanzi non finiti di Carlo Emilio Gadda”, 2014, pp. 39 (V. Bindert,

Haverford). 5. “Trauma: religione e storia in tre superstiti dell’Olocausto”, 2014, pp. 31 (S. Vitale-Gilles). 6. “Blurred Identities: Amara Lakhous’ Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore in piazza Vittorio and

Richard Rodriguez’s The Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez”, 2013, pp. 46 (A. Allen).

7. “Un viaggio attraverso le Città invisibili di Calvino”, 2013, pp. 65 (M. O’ Connor). 8. “La complessità fra identità e storia nella scrittura di Igiaba Scego”, 2012, pp. 50 (A.

Fletcher). 9. “Se questo è un uomo e La tregua di Primo Levi”, 2010, pp. 48 (J. Ferrara). 10. “Una retorica di compassione nel Decameron”, 2009, pp. 46 (P. Gupta). 11. “Rompendo le catene del passato: per una definizione della femminilità moderna”, 2008, pp.

48 (L. Pellegrino). 12. “The Politics of the Feminist Novel”, 2008, pp. 62 (L. Vasco). 13. “Migrant Hermeneutics: Shall We Dance?”, 2006, pp. 62 (E. Bagus, Haverford). 14. “Liberare l’alma: il corpo come prigione ed il cammino verso Dio”, 2005, pp. 42 (A. Hicks-

Bartlett). 15. “The Theatre of the Absurd in Pirandello and Ionesco: From Absurdity to an Exploration of

the Self”, 2006, pp. 30 (C. Haimes). 16. “La ridefinizione del canone letterario italiano attraverso il tema dell’abbandono”, 2005, pp.

32 (O. Byron).

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Ph.D. History of Art Dissertations:

1. Co-ADVISOR, “Gender Roles for Women in the Renaissance and Baroque”, in progress, (J. Lake).

2. Co-ADVISOR, “Futurist Aeropainting: Extended Women and the Kingdom of the Machine”, 2012, pp. 246 (J. Griffith).

3. “Curiosity and the Ideal: Anatomical Investigation and the Gendered Imagination in Sixteenth-Century Florentine Art”, 2008, pp. 294 (J. Bird).

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE AT BMC

• ADVISOR (majors and minors in Italian, Romance Languages, Comparative Literature), 2004-present.

• Theses ADVISOR for Italian, Romance Languages, Comparative Literature Majors, 2004-present. • RECOMMENDER of the ISI Study Abroad Program in Florence and Perugia to the Study Abroad

Committee. Both programs have been approved in 2016. Visited the programs in summer 2017. • EXAMINER AB/MA Italian proficiency exams for Department of French, 2005- present. • EXTERNAL EXAMINER for graduate written exams (GSAS), 2007-present. • MENTOR, Alexander Harper, Consortium for Faculty Diversity Post-Doctoral Fellow, AY 13-15. • ADVISOR for Class of 2016, Custom Week, August 31, 2012. • PARTICIPANT, meeting with MLA Executive, Rosemary Feal, ACE American Council on Education

Fellow, May 2012. • LECTURER, Parents’ Weekend: “An Afterlife Journey with Dante,” 1) Fall 2011, 2) April 2010, 3)

April 2006. • LECTURER, Travel with Bryn Mawr to Destinations around the World. Trip in Croatia, Summer

2010. • PARTICIPANT and ORGANIZER of Study Abroad activities for the International Week on campus,

November 2009. • ORGANIZER of the Renaissance Women Week, Spring 2006.

Search Committees: • CHAIR, tenure track in Italian, AY 17-18. • Tenure track in German, AY 15-16. • CNTT in Russian, AY 13-14. • DIVERSITY REPRESENTATIVE, tenure track in Spanish, AY 12-13. • CHAIR, Visiting Asst. Prof. in Italian, AY 2012-13. • CHAIR, Visiting Asst. Prof. in Italian, AY 2007-8.

College Committees: • Steering committee of Comparative Literature, 2005-present. • Ad Hoc committee for a CNTT re-appointment in the Middle Eastern Studies, AY 16-17. • Faculty Welfare, 2015-2017. • Honor Board, 2011-2014.

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• Dean’s Panel, 2011-2014. • Curricular Renewal Sub-Working Group on Languages, 2009. • Undergraduate Awards and Fellowships, 2005-2007. • Undergraduate Academic Standing -both subcommittees: a) Independent Majors Committee and b)

Special Cases Committee, 2008-2012. • Co-founder Steering committee of International Faculty Group, 2004-2008.

Talks organized at BMC: • “Come tradurre”, ITAL 320, Spring 2017 (M. Mafatto). • “The Space of the Senses. From the Discourse on Romantic Poetry to the Infinito”, ITAL 320,

Spring 2017 (S. Wright). • “Leopardi politico”, ITAL 320, Spring 2017 (A. Mirra). • International Symposium. Eight Speakers: V. Kirkham; M. Zaggia; D. Marsh; D. Rundle; N.

Struever; J. Gaisser; W. Stenhouse; S. Bakdassarri. "Classicism, Humanism, and Modernity: Poggio Bracciolini's Legacy in Florence and Beyond", Spring 2016.

• “Reading from In a Dark Wood”, sponsored by BMC and Saint Joseph’s University, Spring 2016 (J. Luzzi).

• Duo Alterno Concert, in collaboration with the Music Department at Haverford, ITAL 320, Fall 2013.

• “Come lavorano gli autori”, ITAL 304, Spring 2013 (C. Lecce). • “One Upon a Time in Italy: Crimes, Psychology, and Literature”, ITAL 229, Spring 2012 (S.

Ciappi). • “An Intellectual Partnership in Renaissance Italy”, Spring 2010 (V. Kirkham). • “Dante’s Inferno”, Spring 2008 (P. M. Forni). • “The Epic Romance in the Hands of Women Writers: The Case of Moderata Fonte”, Spring 2005

(V. Finucci). • “Dialogue with Women Poets of the Italian Renaissance”, Spring 2005 (C. Moore).

Ph. D. Committees: • Ph. D Preliminary Written Exam, History of Art, “Gender Roles for Women in the Renaissance

and Baroque", 2017 (J. Lake). • CHAIR, Ph. D Defense, Greek, Latin and Classical Studies, “Roman Nostalgia”, 2014 (E.

Mulhern). • CHAIR, Ph.D. Preliminary Written Exam, Greek, Latin and Classical Studies, “Roman Nostalgia”,

2011 (E. Mulhern). • CHAIR, Ph. D Defense, History of Art, “Bronzino and the Style(s) of Mannerism”, 2008

(Z. Gruborovic). • CHAIR, Ph. D Preliminary Written Exam, History of Art, “New Contexts for the Santo Sepulcro in

Torres Del Rio: Historiography, National Identity, and the Mudejars of Navarre”, 2006 (R. Kim).

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE • Editorial Committee for Presses: 1) Series Voci di Repertorio. Lucca: Pacini-Fazzi Press, 2014-

present; 2) Series Muliphein. Cenacolo di Ares Press, 2015-present. • Professional Committees: 1) Renaissance Society of America Program Committee, AY 15-17; 2)

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NEH Committee for the 2012 Summer Stipends Awards, Fall 201, 2017 (selected but declined); 3) Renaissance Society Fellowship Committee AY 2017-18 (selected but declined).

• External Reviewer for Universities and Presses: 1) Italian Department Review, Vassar College, 2016; 2) Approaches to Teaching World Literature Series, The Modern Language Association of America Press, 2016; 3) tenure-track case, CUNY, 2014; 4) CNTT case, the University of Delaware, 2010.

• External Reviewer for Peer-reviewed Journals: 1) Nuova Rivista di Letteratura Italiana, Peer Reviewed Journal, University of Pisa, 2012-present; 2) Nemla Italian Studies Journal (NIS), Peer Reviewed Journal, 2014-present.

LANGUAGES Italian (native), English, French (good written knowledge), Latin and Ancient Greek (good written knowledge).

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS • American Association of Italian Studies, AAIS • American Association Teachers of Italian, AATI • Modern Language Association, MLA • Northeast Modern Language Association, NEMLA • Renaissance Society of America, RSA • The Medieval Academy of America, MAA